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Grade 8 Pre-Algebra, Unit 1: all nine lessons

The first unit of the Clareza Pre-Algebra course for Grade 8, Exponents, Powers, and Scientific Notation, as a 53-page PDF. Every lesson has a short script for you to read, a page to read with your teenager, and a practice sheet on its own page so you can copy it. The answers are at the back.

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What is in it

  1. Evaluating expressions with exponents
  2. Simplifying with the exponent rules
  3. When an exponent rule does not apply
  4. Zero and negative exponents from a pattern
  5. Writing numbers in scientific notation
  6. Calculating with scientific notation
  7. Comparing quantities by order of magnitude
  8. Why zero and negative exponents always work
  9. Finding the mistake in an exponent solution

The same course online: try a lesson with Clara

Online, Clara, the teacher built into every course, works through each lesson with your teenager and explains a wrong answer instead of marking it. Here is a real one. No account needed.

The whole year

This unit comes from Clareza Grade 8: Mathematics, a full Pre-Algebra year, from exponents and the real numbers to functions, the Pythagorean theorem and systems of equations, the ground Algebra I is built on. Every one of those lessons is already live online, taught by Clara.

Online, this becomes the full Pre-Algebra course, same lessons, taught instead of printed, alongside the rest of the year. See the whole thing on the Grade 8 curriculum page.

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